As it turns out, AMD wasn’t done making announcements back at CES 2016. Today we’ve got news of some more new APUs, processors, fansink coolers, motherboard updates, and we’ve gotten our hands on an AMD Wraith cooler for some in-house testing.

In addition to the A10-7890K announced at CES, AMD also has a trio of additional APUs / processors coming down the pipeline -- the A10-7860K, the A6-7470K, the Athlon X4 845 and even a new cooler dubbed "Wraith" as well...

With both AMD and Intel, the stock coolers that they bundle with their CPUs seem like they have been the same forever. There have been changes in the Intel cooler over the years but AMD has stuck with it, mostly because their mounting system has been consistent forever. Well this year at CES AMD announced changes in theirs. They brought their new Wraith cooler to CES and were showing off the performance. Well last week they sent out their new cooler along with the AMD FX 8370 CPU. We have tested the FX 8370 before but it does give me a chance to see how the new cooler performs. So today I’m going to test the new coolers cooling and noise performance as well as the old AMD cooler to see how they compare.

Never has a stock CPU cooler garnered as much attention as AMD's Wraith. Manufacturers usually don't even mention these bonus items, but AMD's new CPU cooler has changed all of this. Is the Wraith really a game changer?

Today, a new unboxing video of the ASRock E3V5 WS Intel LGA1151 workstation motherboard is published on OCinside.de in German with English subtitles. The detailed ASRock E3V5 WS motherboard review with Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 processor is coming soon as well.

Pandora ATX is the name of BitFenix's latest compact and elegant ATX case. Despite it's rather small dimensions it's possible to build a high-end product based on this enclosure. Apart from that there are quite a few interesting features and there is even a version with integrated LCD display. Compared to the older version, which was only compatible with mATX motherboards, this model also supports custom watercooling setup and even 360mm radiators.

Unlike years past, today there are a vast number of quality gaming laptops available that can not only match most home rigs but occasionally outperform them. If you're in the market for a new gaming laptop and want to know what components will give you a well-rounded rig, here’s a breakdown of what’s on offer.

Fractal Design have a long history of creating high-end, very high-quality products, but in recent years they’ve also turned their attention to a more consumer friendly end of the market, with more affordable, yet still very stylish and well-made products, such as the Core 500 we have in the eTeknix office today.

“The Core 500 is the perfect PC case for those looking for a small, compact chassis that lets you build your computer without compromising on component selection.”

Designed for mini-ITX motherboards, but still offering support for a large GPU, a standard ATX PSU and more, the Core 500 is bound to appeal to those wanting a compact workstation or gaming system. With prices around £50 here in the UK, it’s also going to appeal to those who don’t have a huge amount of money to spend on their chassis, leaving more of the budget to focus on better performing internal components.

We review the new Mini-ITX chassis from Fractal Design, the Define Nano S. It's to be found in the word already, Nano as in small. This chassis is intended to be used for Mini-ITX usage. Yet it can still house many components including a fully fetched graphics card. Not bad for something you place on a 15x15 motherboard, eh?

Compact cars were once the vehicles you were forced to buy because you were tight on cash, so they were fairly stripped down, at least in the United States. The last decade has been good to the compact car market, though. The mid-aughts saw more compact cars available with higher-end options, like leather interiors, heated seats and navigation systems. And now, new compact models from the last two years gained driver assist technologies, too.

NVIDIA’s GTX 980Ti has proved to be a very popular choice among hardware enthusiasts requiring extreme performance at demanding resolutions. Whether you’re opting for a 21:9 3440×1440 60Hz panel, 4K display or high refresh rate 1440P monitor, there’s very few single card configurations on the market capable of dealing with advanced AA, complex tessellation and other visually taxing effects while driving a large number of pixels. Technically, the Titan X is NVIDIA’s flagship product and its 12GB frame buffer initially appears like an enticing proposition. However, the price to performance ratio is quite poor especially when you consider the 980Ti is based on the same GM200 silicone and only exhibits a few cost saving measures. Most notably, the video memory is reduced from 12GB to 6GB and the shader units have been slightly scaled back from 3072 to 2816.

Barring a few exceptions, the majority of Titan X models utilize a reference design which results in reduced overclocking headroom and higher temperatures. In contrast to this, custom cooled GTX 980Ti SKUs feature very impressive factory overclocks and enable users to access a higher power limit percentage when tackling manual core and memory boosts. As a result, it’s not uncommon for 980Ti GPUs to outperform the Titan X in certain scenarios despite costing £300-400 less. This means it is the perfect choice for the higher end demographic and also provides an improved price to performance ratio.

Flash drives make it extremely convenient to transport and share data. With large USB 2.0 drives copying data was painstakingly slow. With USB 3.0, the transfer rate increased and so did the size of the drives. Kingston has released their 1st generation of USB 3.1 called the HyperX Savage.

The Beast, in our opinion a first glance would tell us this thing is built strong and ready for your active lifestyle. M-Edge is dedicated to making your life smooth and transitional from work to the gym to the home and as you'll see in the next while through some of the products we are working with M-Edge on that they accomplish that with ease.

The latest chassis from NZXT was shown off to us and a few other select press from around the world earlier today. Set to launch on the 26th of Jan (2016), the new chassis doesn’t have a real name just yet, but we’ve been told that the name, price and variants available will be detailed within the next week or two at the very latest.

I don't know how many of you reading these lines had the chance to play the original UFO Enemy Unknown turn-based squad strategy game by MicroProse back in 1994 and its sequel X-COM Terror From The Deep in 1995 (again by MicroProse) but these are still two of my all-time classic games to ever hit the PC (right next to Wing Commander). Now the reason I’m even mentioning this is because by the time this review gets published online Firaxis Games should be less than a week away from launching their highly anticipated XCOM 2 game (sequel to their XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Enemy Within games) and thus aside looking forward to spending a few days with it at launch is there a better way than to welcome it by throwing some of the latest gaming mice at it? So today on our test bench we have the latest gaming mouse to rollout from the OZONE factory wearing the OCELOT World colors the ARGON.

OZONE Gaming Gear, is an European brand of gaming peripherals that revolves around the concept “It’s all about Evolution”. OZONE is a brand created by and for gamers, the evolution is part of our gaming life, we all want to improve and evolve into a better gaming contender. OZONE is committed to the development, engineering and evolution of innovative gaming peripherals with a unique style and the best performance, to allow gamers to exceed their limits and become the best. It’s all about evolution. In the recent years the gaming industry has developed into the ultra-competitive arena that we see today, and the gamers have also developed into a more demanding, sophisticated and exigent consumer. There is an ever increasing demand for better design, increase number of functions and higher performances. Due to the development of newer and better gaming peripherals, the market has suffered a transformation. New segments of high performance gaming accessories have grown to become more specialized and subdivided. But this change in the market has also come accompanied of an increase in the price levels of those products. OZONE provides customers a wide range of gaming peripherals. Everyone from the occasional user to the professional gamer is ensured to find a OZONE product at a reasonable price which will fit their requirements to enjoy their favorite games.

The ARGON OCELOTE World laser gaming mouse by OZONE was designed to accompany their BLAST OCELOTE World gaming headset which we reviewed a while ago so naturally it also shares the same black and orange color theme we liked so much. Under the hood of the ARGON we once again see the very popular and award winning ADNS-9800 laser sensor by Pixart (8200DPI/12000FPS/150IPS/30G) along with Omron micro-switches for the primary buttons (those feature a lifecycle of up to 20 million clicks). The ARGON is also one of the very few ambidextrous models in the market and also features a total of 9 fully programmable buttons, 128Kb of onboard memory (used to store its 5 profiles), 1000Hz polling rate and a weight adjustment system (18g extra).

It has been quite a while since we’ve reviewed a product from Reeven so we were quite excited when they told us they would be sending over their flagship Okeanos (RC-1402) CPU cooler. This cooler features a pretty large dual tower design, two cooling fan, six hefty copper heatpipes, and a pretty sleek look. Reeven tells us that this cooler was designed with gamers and overclockers in mind so it should be able to handle some pretty hefty thermal loads as well. Let’s see if Reeven brings the entire package with the Okeanos.